Jean Rostand

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#blatant #draw #error #sometimes #truths

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#expressed #hear #may #offend #others

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#disadvantages #fortitude #millionaires #more #nothing

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#demolish #discovered #had #hypothesis #must

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#contempt #feel #got #i #i feel

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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